Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-15
NORTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED HERE AND
THYRE AT RALEIGH.
Railroad Eatters Two Fires-A Farmer
Accidentally Killed Acquitted
Escape OF Prisoners.


a llt lN ill NFlNIf t"iit'A 'tN '''H'
and stables of Harry Skinner, causing
a loss Of $1,000. ! fire at Wilmington
Yesterday burned two tcncmcnt-houses,
caus,rg loss Of 3l.Jip.
II has been decided that work on the
water-vorks at Goldsh1ro' shall begin
January 18th AMI bc completed April
1-th.
Revenue officers az Gollsboro' made
tlrCc captures of mooushncrs yester-
dav. one of the men, Nal Robinson,
IS one If the most notorious offenders
"a That section.
New. has been received Of the escape
Of four negro prisoners from the JAIL of
Halifax county.
Cotton receipts here to-date are over
12.CaN balos, an increase Of nearly 5000
balcs over last season.
The Arlington Hotel, at Goldsboro',
has been sold aud purchased by Hunter
4 Street.
Malcolm Ncphaul n vcll-knovn
f-mcr 81 Eohcsou county, was thrown
hum q buggy yesterday near Red
Springs and instantly killed He was
thrown against . tree. His neck and
l0C were broken.
Ecv. Robert Strange. rector OF the
Church az the Good Shepherd, in this
CITY. Las been called 10 St. James
church, at Wilmington.
Grcr and Jordan, the young white
mon cha-ccd with numbering a negro
iu Nccl.euhuTf county, have been az
Quilted
4 hc county commissioners Of Meek
lCulurg county have instituted a libel
suit against tie Charlotte Ho~uc' for
charging that food unfit for dogs was
furnished the county convicts.
Miss Delph'no Henderson was
fatally burned in Montgomery county
lsy before yesterday while attempting
tu light "a fire with kerosene.
Senator Nancs will certainly be at the
Cumberland county fair, al Fayetto-
Vile. and will speak there.
Toth the broVustone Quarrics at
Wadcshoro' are now in operation, with
% full force at work. THERE'S demand
ior an their product. Most of 1t goes
NoIth. 1t is largely used III Georgia.
The quality of the stone is very high.
Northern capital operates one of the
quauics.
Bishop J. s. Key, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, south, has gone t.
Aliens. Ca. which he will make his
home. lie has purchased the residence
there Of Rev. lIr Aitirus G.. Haygood.
A.leyille will 90 the honors when
President Cleveland reaches that noun
tam metropolis \ fairly elaborate
lIo.temms has lean prepared. There
isto lc an escort and a procession, OF
which General Iohnstono Jones IS to
be chief marshal.
A Will case involving 10000 is on
trisl at Pttshoro. Two ladies are tho
contestants. and the other ladies take
such an extreme interest in the matter
chat they attend the trial in large mum
Icrs-a very unusual thing IN this part
of the world. Some OF the ablest law
vcrs in the State app ar in this compil-
Gated ease. which j. ives the question
of two wills made Size late William
{. Fhucc,tc.
All the Indications are that the re-
UNION 81 Nth'Int i',
regiment. the First North Carolina
ca,alIv. next week at the State fair
here vii be- success. Members write
that they will attend, ard no doubt n
society will be formed Of these sur
Viyors. 60,
The BAPTIST State Convention will
Il. car bc held at Durham Eoyem-
hcr 18th, aud lev. br. cGAries l.
pailev. of this city. will preside heV'
T.. ". Battle, OF Nadcsooro, preHches
the annual sermon
Tie Presbyterian Synod meets al
FAYETTEVILLE on the 9th instant
1lcI,rost issued CIR August 10y the
State Board of Health statcs tait the
death rate that month at H4leigh Wa
2l.C, Charlotte ~, Durham =, .
Wilmington lS.I, 3shevlue I5.Z' 'y
ottcyillo 3u.G. The latter place Is ~ Il
mie one Of the h.a'toleSt towns ~ ll'
State. Almost all parts oil the o7tl'y
show large mortality tas year Inc
TOWN rs a general tling suffered most
and deaths of children have been more
numerous. The season has been re-
marRably eickly.
Juulus Strlckla ID, tho durham MN
who two years ago wrote such blood
and. Thunder lstttrtoa Chicago anarch
il raper. and got into such terrible
row thereby. is now Ia Raleigh q
prominent aud apparently earnes
member Of the Salvation Army.
The cosl-mines at Egypt, Chstiiau
county. have been reopened ana con
siderable coal les being taken out. o0h'
time ago a partyo northern cap''s'.ss'
inspected these mines Some ol Ia,
shafts are down TO depth OF over 90
feet. Just at the outbreaks OF the wa
these mines were beginning to De eA
tensiytly worked. Near ny al
immense deposits OF IRON. hut 10 .,
the war the United states ('orerIi''i'ii
would have had an arsenal 1ue.c' A.
favorable report h'd o.eh maui l - M w.
Ordnance Department tueiTou' ~ ~
coalisMtpminous, andparticu"riy wen
adapted TO smelling. ii Is used 10
making eas at Greensboro / no 'o ,.i
opmcnt Of these mines Is an l'nH2i 3,'i.
matter 10 the Cape rear aua "'4 ~,
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